NZIPP Pro Report - Nov 2010

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Executive Updates 04

Letter From the Editors

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Presidents Report

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Commercial Directors Report

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Portrait Directors Report

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Wedding Directors Report

NZIPP News

Cover Image: © Richard Wood - MNZIPP Finalist - NZ Professional Photographer of the Year 2010 Silver - Portrait Category Epson / NZIPP Iris Professional Photography Awards 2010

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Welcome to New Members

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Q Submission Dates

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Web Profiles

Education 12

Russell Hamlet - One Day Seminar

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A Tonic 2010 - Auckland

Member Profile 14

Tony Carter GMNZIPP - NZ Photographer of the Year

Regional Updates

Contact NZ Institute of Professional Photography (NZIPP) PO Box 27 277 Christchurch New Zealand W: www.nzipp.org.nz E: info@nzipp.org.nz We welcome your feedback and thoughts. If you have something to say, send it through to: marketing@nzipp.org.nz

PRO REPORT is a publication of the NZIPP © NZIPP 2010. All rights reserved.

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Central Districts Region

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Contents The Missing Links 18

Malcolm Somerville

Photo Competitions 20

Photography Masters Cup

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Creative Asia

Exhibitions 21 Brian Brake - Lens on the World 21

Sheep: Icons in NZ Art

Ilford Diary 22

Diary Dates for 2010/2011

Industry News 23

6 Real Life Stories

Corporate Members 23

Thanks to our Corporate Members

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Letter from the Editors

Letter from the Editors

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Well, who could believe it’s November 2010, let alone nearly 10 year’s have passed from all of us being scared of Y2K! One of the best things about living in Canterbury, is the public holiday in the middle of November! If you don’t live in Canterbury, I hope you get a chance for a break prior to the craziness in the lead up to Christmas.

Currently we are working and consulting with the NZIPP Board around the NZIPP branding, and how we can better utlise the NZIPP logo. Our aim is to build brand awareness and increase the long-term benefits to NZIPP members. We will be working towards creating a clear, consistent, visual image, which will strengthen our Institute, and show professionalism in the eyes of members, general public, customers, and suppliers. Our investigations show that members aren’t using the NZIPP logo, or are using the logo incorrectly. The strength of the logo is only validated by members’ activity using the NZIPP logo. Look out for simple, easy to use NZIPP Brand Guidelines early next year.

Kind regards

Arna Wahl Davies and Nerida Ramsay NZIPP Marketing and Development

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Presidents Report

Executive Updates

I’ve just returned from four days in Australia as AIPP’s guest at their conference “The Event”. Wow it was fantastic to actually get to participate as a delegate instead of running around madly behind the scenes. The work of US portrait photographer Jim Fiscus, and internationally renowned architectural photographer Tim Griffin were particularly outstanding. (It was a bit of a bonus spending an hour and half in the car with Tim on the drive up from Brisbane airport too!)

What has struck me about our own Infocus and The Event was the similarity of discussions among photographers during the breaks and the social events.

There is no doubt about it the professional photographic industry is facing massive challenges globally.

Not only are we all facing the fallout from the recession, a growing number of our potential customers are choosing to DIY their photography because there is a perception that today’s digital cameras “make it easy” to get a “professional quality” shot. Added to that we have a proliferation in the number of photographers entering the industry from tertiary institutions and the public with its perception as a “glamour” career. We are also facing steep learning curves with the introduction of video technology in HDDSLRs and the challenges of social change and behavior with social media such as Facebook and viral videos on YouTube. 3D will soon be another thing to add to that list.

Talking to ASMP’s Richard Anderson from the USA while in Australia the same issues are being faced there. So it is global and it’s pretty scary stuff.

There is no question it’s pretty damn hard out there in the market place for professional photographers. The elite at the top end will probably survive providing they can supply work that is beyond the scope of others. They too will have to change though and will likely find themselves often acting as directors of CGI based images. Photographers in the middle and low end of the market are facing an increasing fight for the same work, much of it will become price driven and many will only be able sustain part time businesses.

With overheads remaining similar to full time businesses, many of those will have to assess whether it is worth it at all.

Recently commissioned research in Australia, that AIPP have shared with us, confirms this. It is no longer just anecdotal – there is strong evidence to support it. While there will continue to be a high demand for photography and images, the professional photography industry IS in decline.

But we have a choice. We can look on it with doom and gloom or we can choose to look for the new opportunities out there. Adapt or die. This is not new for our industry. In recent times we have all had to embrace the onslaught of digital technology. Some got left behind. In past history the same thing happened when 35mm film became available to the masses and consumers could suddenly easily take quality photos themselves. Some got left behind.

Education of our clients will also be a critical component to success. They need to understand the differences of what a true professional provides and the value added to their images compared to something they’ve shot themselves or downloaded off iStock. (Speaking of which, there was a lot of discussion about the dumbing down of the current generation of art directors and graphic designers who simply want us to “copy” an iStock image compared to using a conceptual “pencil sketch” in the past.)

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Executive Updates

“Take some time out and look deeply at how you do business.

Chop off the dead wood, chop off the straggly branches leading in the wrong direction and shape your business to provide you with the future YOU want.”

NOVEMBER 2010

As renowned and inspirational Australian landscape photographer Ken Duncan said in his presentation at the AIPP Event, “it’s time to prune the tree”. Take some time out and look deeply at how you do business. Chop off the dead wood, chop off the straggly branches leading in the wrong direction and shape your business to provide you with the future YOU want.

If you have enough passion and can embrace change you will survive. And if there is one thing true about photographers - we certainly have passion for what we do.

One of the spin-offs of being able to attend the Australian conference was round table discussions with Robert Edwards, AIPP’s President, Richard Anderson of the ASMP and Diederik van Heyningen from AIPA. We have agreed to establish an informal Skype based forum with the Australian and USA associations to talk about some of the issues on a regular basis and to share information and resources. Given how tiny the industry in NZ is in comparison to Australia and the US this will give us the opportunity to tap into significant resources.

One of these immediately available to us is the digital best practice resource www.dpbestflow.com I strongly recommend you all take a look at this website. It is a progression from the earlier UPDIG site and has had massive development funding from the USA Library of Congress.

Another resource we will be able to tap into is Arts Freedom Australia. http://www.artsfreedomaustralia.com/blog/ Ken Duncan has offered us any support we need in order to ensure continued photographer access to public places and our National Parks. This is an issue that NZIPP needs to address before it raises itself to the level it is in Australia and many other parts of the world.

On top of all the above I’ve met quite a few potential excellent speakers for next year’s Infocus in Rotorua – so watch this space.

Regards

Craig Robertson NZIPP President

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Commercial Directors Report

Behind the scenes at Planet NZIPP there is always activity. Near the end of every month for example a friendly email arrives asking all board members to submit their articles for PRO REPORT. This month wasn’t any different except for two things. First we were given an extra day due to Labour Weekend and second, I had writers block. I politely indicated to the MAD lady, Arna, that I wouldn’t have an article this month…that was 3.00pm.

Fast forward a few hours, I arrive home an hour later than planned due to appointment at the studio, ate dinner that my patient wife had prepared an hour earlier, tried to teach a 5 year old how to add & subtract without using her fingers, and then settled in to watch Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.

The point at which he asked a class of American kids to identify a range of vegetables, and none could name A SINGLE ONE amazed me. We’re not talking oddball stuff here like avocados or artichokes, but potatoes and tomatoes. I finished viewing the programme amazed, frustrated, even angry and retired to my home office to reboot my brain and attempt to convince myself that humanity as a species is not doomed.

When these moments happen there are two websites I visit and recommend to others. They are TED.com and wimp.com. TED’s tagline is “ideas worth spreading”. It comprises a video archive of hundreds of talks; they are all searchable and categorised such as courageous, fascinating, beautiful, funny, or informative. You’re bound to find something that pushes your buttons or spins your wheels.

My other favorite, wimp.com features five videos every day that will amaze, make you laugh, cry, think, or just ask for the last few minutes of your life back. Today you could view:

“Humanity is not doomed, but it is probably fair to say that we do have some challenges to overcome.”

1. Guy rescues baby hummingbird after it was attacked 2. Floating cube optical illusion 3. Stationary wave surfing in Munich, Germany 4. Stephen Fry on language 5. Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking It normally only takes 5-10 minutes to view them depending on the content selected and your interests. One thing it will do is inspire you. As creative people this is what fuels us. So tonight, after starting the evening in a state of shock at Jamie Oliver’s show that is, (not my wife’s cooking or our daughter’s mathematical ability). I can now head to bed with the knowledge that humanity is not doomed, but it is probably fair to say that we do have some challenges to overcome.

Richard Linton NZIPP Commercial Director

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Executive Updates

Portrait Directors Report

NOVEMBER 2010

I was going to have a little rave about systems this month, as their importance has been rammed home to me even more with the opening of my new store this week. Man oh man I think I have aged decades trying to pull this off, I can’t believe how many things there are to think about. When you are trying to create a business that is as efficient as possible, or as my wife would say “work without you”, you have to get it right.

Being a bit of a cowboy and having an unbelievably organised businessperson in my wife, I have been able to get away with murder over the years. I am sure this is probably true for many photography partnerships out there. However putting out fires all the time is a pain in the arse for your clients and you, and actually doesn’t have to happen. The best thing we ever did for our business (and our relationship!) was to incorporate a total database software that is literally the engine of our daily organisation and client relations. Historically, as organised as Laura tried to make us, each staff member reverted to their own little systems. So when a client rang to ask where their work was at, many times we didn’t have a bloody clue where to look. Was it arted, was it printed, if so was it filed in the right place, or was it at the framers, if so when will it be ready etc etc.

When you have a busy business as we all are striving to have, this sort of shit going on can be demoralising for you and your staff as someone is always to blame. Having a system that can answer any question, that keeps production honest and timely, and at the push of a button can answer any client query has been a revelation. Plus it’s shown me what a dick I have been all these years. We sourced a program called Photo One from Peter Straw at Beverly Studios in Christchurch. Peter is a bloody genius, and a very on to it systems dude. I want to thank him publicly for saving my butt this past week, flying up on a Sunday night at a minute’s notice and working so intensely for the next 24 hours implementing my stores systems for us. This once again shows the value of being an NZIPP member, where we are here to help each other .

The software is cheap, and will make your business fly by allowing you to get on with your core skills of being a photographer, but a business like one.

My goal of having a paperless studio, where all relevant details are digitally stored will be realised. A hard copy is produced for the client, as signed contracts are still imperative. But we will scan these at reception, and Photo One will keep this and all client details, including an image (so that you can put a face to the name when they ring) all digitally stored. And the hard copy is taken away by the client.

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“I have always been a bit of a raver, but now with these new challenges I am definitely practicing what I preach.”

Don’t kid yourself, that as a one person business, you don’t need this sort of application. Learn from the mistakes that people like me have made and are willing to own up to in a quest to make it easier for you all. My favourite TV program at the moment (apart from watching cage fighters beat the shit out of each other!), is Jamie Oliver trying to convert people in the States from killing themselves with bad personal eating habits. Disorganisation and the failure to own up and deal with it, is the saturated fat of our business lives. Let’s live a happier life that these simple little changes can provide. I have always been a bit of a raver, but now with these new challenges I am definitely practicing what I preach.

Lastly, in creating this new venture, I have provided employment and excitement for six more photographers. Finding and building an effective team has been interesting and fun. At the same time as I realise how much I have to offer them, I’m removing obstacles to their own growth, and letting them blossom. This will make my life and theirs all the more enjoyable.

Russell Hamlet NZIPP Portrait Director

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Executive Updates

Wedding Directors Report

NOVEMBER 2010

I recently heard someone saying that they reckoned approximately 80% of what any two wedding photographers would shoot at any given wedding would be the same. And that the 20% is what people actually hire us for.

I’m not sure about the percentages but I think the concept is probably right... and the bit that is unique is the bit that is about you. Who are you? And how does that impact on your work? And how can you use it to get out of a commodity photography market?

What is a commodity market? It’s what you get if you don’t have the 20%. If there is no unique 20% then photography is a commodity like baked beans, and price is the only way to differentiate one photographer from another.

Here’s an interesting exercise that helps with the whole ‘defining your style’ thing (or working out what your 20% is)...

1. Sort out/track down/find and print out your 10 all time favourite images – some might be yours, they will probably include the work of other photographers 2. Take each one, one at a time, and write one word that summarises what you love about it 3. Take the list of 10 words, and summarise/condense it down to just three words; the three things that an image absolutely has to have to make you love it

“If there is no unique 20% then photography is a commodity like baked beans, and price is the only way to differentiate one photographer from another.”

The crazy thing is, once you know what you’re looking for you start to find it a lot more often (who knew?!). Of course you already know what makes a good image but having it condensed down to a ‘shopping list’ of 3 words that you have in the back of your head when shooting...well it has really helped me. Give it a go!

What I’ve found is not only do I ‘find’ those magic images more often; I have started to get found by clients who are looking for the same things. And when that happens, it’s a beautiful thing indeed.

Nicola Inglis NZIPP Wedding Director

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NZIPP News

NOVEMBER 2010

NZIPP News Q Submission Dates

For those who aren’t qualified yet it’s time to start planning a Q submission in 2011. Once successful you’ll be able to advertise your NZIPP qualification, & your profile will appear in the Find a Photographer function on the NZIPP website.

Members Welcome to New mbers for November: Welcome to our new

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Mark the Q submission dates in your diaries & start planning now!

Wednesday 10 November 2010 Wednesday 16 February 2011 Wednesday 18 May 2011 Wednesday 31 August 2011 Wednesday 16 November 2011 For more info see the Q Programme under Quick Links on the NZIPP website.

Web Profiles for Qualified Members As a membership benefit, NZIPP Qualified members are entitled to a profile & gallery listing in the Find a Photographer function on the NZIPP website.

Potential clients using the Find a Photographer function will first search by region, then by qualification (Commercial, Wedding, Portrait – remember you’re only listed in categories in which you have a Q). If 10 listings come up, & only two have galleries loaded to grab that buyer’s attention, guess who’s going to get the job! In addition those that have galleries loaded will appear at the top of the results list, & those who don’t have galleries will appear at the bottom - so loading your profile & gallery is really worth the effort.

Don’t delay – login to the NZIPP membership system using your member ID & password, and go to the Q Profile tab of your membership record. Check out the Help pages for guidelines on how to use the system, & don’t forget to save & submit your new profile. Once submitted your profile is queued & will be available online once approved. This is not an automated task so can take up to 24 hours.

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Education

NOVEMBER 2010

Education Russell Hamlet One Day Seminar - Christchurch Straight talking and getting down to business!

DATE: Monday 22 November 2010 TIME: 9.30am - 5.00pm LOCATION: Fendalton Library & Service Centre

4 Jeffreys Rd (cnr Clyde, Jeffreys Rd)

Christchurch

(Parking onsite or on street) EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: NZIPP Members just $155 includes lunch

When booked by the 5th of November!

LATE BOOKINGS: Bookings made after the 5th of November

$215 includes lunch (RRP $350!)

BOOK YOUR SPACE / AND ANY DIETARY REQUIREMENTS: Email: nzipp@lumo.co.nz

Seminar Details: A one-day seminar with the NZIPP Portrait Director Russell Hamlet. Russell is a very successful portrait photographer with heaps of street cred, who understands the New Zealand market, and the psychology behind the numbers.

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Earning from your presentations

This seminar will be ideal for wedding and portrait photographers. Spaces are strictly limited to NZIPP members only, don’t miss this one off event!!

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Hands On Lighting & Posing Workshops - 22 Nov 2010 This year’s Tonic is all about getting your cameras working, and learning skills in an environment where you can apply them instantly. Come along to our one-day workshop at Kingsize Studios in Ponsonby and have access to 4 fantastic photographers and their skills: Fiona Quinn presents “Posing for models/fashion” – have you ever struggled to get the best out of one person in front of the camera? You will be able to take the skills you learn from Fiona and apply them any time you have a single person in your viewfinder. This hands-on session will have you shooting a model in a studio situation.

Lester de Vere presents “Posing for families/groups” – Lester shares some of his posing secrets for the family portrait scenario – you will be able to use these skills when photographing any group of people, and this 90-minute hands-on session includes a real family to shoot.

Lisa Crandall presents “Natural Lighting/Bounce Flash” – Lisa brings her presenting skills and experience from her own workshops and will teach you her tricks on how to handle natural light and bounce flash.

Bret Lucas presents “Mastering Studio Lighting” – this 90-minute session will teach you how to master all forms of studio lighting, with ample time to try it out for yourself.

Bring your DSLR along and learn loads of practical skills that you will be able to instantly apply to your style of photography. Your ticket price includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea, plus 6 hours of hands-on education and interaction.

Tickets are limited, and are on a first-come-first-served basis. Book now to make sure you’re on Auckland’s most educational event of the year!

NZIPP Members - $195 Students - $195 Non-members - $245 Click Here to Book Your Ticket!

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Member Profile

NOVEMBER 2010

Member Profile Name: Tony Carter - GMNZIPP Your website: www.tonycarterphotography.co.nz Camera and accessories brands: Nikon d700+lots of nice Nikon glass, Epson Printer and totally amazing Epson papers!

What type of photos do you take?

I like capturing images that say something about who we are as New Zealanders. I love the freedom of being able to take images to the highest level of finishing by manipulation and any other creative tool we photographic artists have available to us.

What do you love about the professional photographic industry?

Everything! Like minded inspirational Photographer friends all over NZ. Clients that are happy to see you at positive times in their life (weddings and portraits).

Having a career that is also your hobby. We are all so very lucky!.

Something that makes you grumpy?

Short sighted, ego driven Photographers that blame their poor performance at print judging on everything except themselves!

Website or blog site that you enjoy? www.Inbedwithsue.com Are you a collector of anything?

I am an avid collector of NZIPP gongs and trophies :) Name one thing not many people know about you: I think I might be the only person in New Zealand who couldn’t stand the Lord of the Rings movies!

Name one thing you miss about being a kid: According to my wife I haven’t grown up yet so I might need to pass on this question..

List five things you would need to survive, if left alone on a deserted island.

I would take the Honours Board with me as they could do with a good break after their hard work down in Queenstown!

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Regional Updates

NOVEMBER 2010

Regional Updates Canterbury/Westland Region Our October meeting was held upstairs at the Dux de Lux. Lisa Gane reminded everyone about the Russell Hamlet seminar on 22 November for portrait and wedding photographers. Richard Linton announced that the Infocus Conference next year would be in Rotorua in early August.

Image by Susan Siu

The guest speaker for our October meeting, Jamie Cobeldick, trained at CPIT several years ago with many of our current members. For the past five years Jamie has been employed by Trends, a glossy magazine showcasing upmarket properties. He talked openly and candidly about his career since leaving Christchurch, which these days involves frequent international travel. He has arrived at the point where wealthy overseas clients give him opportunities such as flying in their private jet or racing their Porsche!

He showed us his work, which covered interiors and exteriors of many different types of properties in places such as Dubai, USA, Australia, and the South Pacific. His images were very impressive.

Jamie was generous with technical information such as lighting kits and how to place lights for maximum effect. His talk was interesting, funny, useful and definitely worthwhile!

Linda O’Reilly Canterbury/Westland Secretary

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Central Districts Region Business Practice Seminar On the 19 October we had a very well attended and applauded seminar on Best Business Practice and Pricing by NZIPP Commercial Director Richard Linton.

NZIPP members and others travelled from as far afield as Rotorua, Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay and Wellington. It was held at Gerald’s studio ‘Tirohanga’ in the hill country outside Palmerston North.

We recommend other regions to take in this presentation as it is timely and led to good, honest, revealing discussion that may well refocus some businesses. It also added 2 definite new members and 2 more probables.

After, over a fantastic Gerald prepared BBQ we were able to continue discussion, celebrate regional awards and get back to our normal exaggerations!

Photographers Gallery to open in Napier Napier photographer and past regional Chair Shayne Jeffares is about to launch a new additional business in the heart of Napier’s Art Deco centre that is all about photography as art. Together with his wife Kathy they have taken over magnificent gallery premises that will in a retro inspired cafe, The Kitchen Table’, large modern gallery spaces plus a seminar area. Opening 06 December with exhibitions already booked.

The Gallery is interested in hearing from any photographer that has salable work, suitable for exhibiting through their 2011/12 programme. Contact the gallery, via their website: www.pghb.co.nz, or 06 835 8142

Malcolm Somerville Central Districts Secretary

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The Missing Links

NOVEMBER 2010

The Missing Links

Written by Malcolm Somerville

If you know what the Red One cine camera has done to the motion picture industry, maybe you have seen nothing yet! RED camera’s Ted Schilowitz has been showing an almost ready for release RED Epic - a 5K cine camera. http://www.macvideo.tv/camera-technology/interviews/index. cfm?articleId=3245734 or as http://vimeo.com/13175791 Just imagine, from 720p to 5K Raw, at 120 frames per second - and higher.

And a third smaller than the RED One camera. More on their own site at www.red.com Watch the interview on www.macvideo.tv, a great site that will keep you in the loop on almost anything related to video and Macs. Already commenting on the relative benefits of the just released MacBook Air over the higher spec iPad, all the features, plus a full OSX, bigger storage, and traditional laptop usability.

Look also at the Great DSLR Debate at last month’s MacVideo conference in London. http://www.macvideo.tv/camera-technology/features/index. cfm?articleId=3245729 Four experienced shooters discuss the pro’s and con’s of shooting DSLR vs conventional video footage. In-depth discussion of what DSLRs are good for, where this technology excels and when to use conventional video technology.

MacVideo is not only covering the moving image, it pays to visit and subscribe to their news as well.

Another site I receive an interesting weekly newsletter from is the Editorial Photographers, United Kingdom. www.epuk.org A resident only membership system but a free access website and weekly newsletter. “....a roundup of the week’s photography, media and copyright news.”

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The Missing Links

Their trends in most ways are also our trends recent item of interest has may well apply here: ‘Freelance photographers who follow industry best practice on copyright earn on average 33% more a year than those who routinely give their copyright to their clients, according to new research from the British Photographic Council.

British Photographic Council chair John Toner said: “Copyright is not only the cornerstone of the creative industries, it is the foundation stone of creativity.

Without it, creators would find it impossible to survive.” http://www.epuk.org/News/959/industry-survey-keep-copyright-and-earn-33more Then there are technologies that you probably already have but don’t know about or use fully. In Adobe CS5, Lightroom 3 already available are extended IPTC-PLUS metadata fields that enable you to join with universal standards in licensing language.

Visit The Picture Licensing Universal System - www.useplus.com — ‘a cooperative, multi-industry initiative—is a three part system that clearly defines and categorizes image usage around the world, from granting and acquiring licenses to tracking and managing them well into the future’.

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Photo Competitions

NOVEMBER 2010

Photo Competitions

The NZIPP does not endorse any of the following competitions. Anyone interested in entering these or any other competitions should read the rules of entry carefully to ensure that the moral rights of the photographer are not being undermined in anyway. If you do come across any competitions where the copyright is demanded by the organisers, please send details to: marketing@nzipp.org.nz

Entries Close: 28 January 2011 Celebrating its 5th year, Photography Masters Cup is the leading international award honouring colour photography.

This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the best professional and amateur photographers in a prestigious annual contest and globally webcast event. Last year’s Photoshow attracted over 40,000 viewers from 154 countries who logged on live to see the Winners Gala.

With a collective Jury of the world’s most recognized experts from National Geographic Channel to Christies in New York, the Masters Cup is the industry’s most authoritative and important photographic event for color photography and brings to light the best work of the year as nominated by the esteemed international panel.

Click here for more information.

Entries Close: 10 December 2010 The Canon Creative Asia Awards is revolutionary in its vision to evolve, include and educate its entrants.

Entries are accepted online as digital images. The entries will be judged online in a pre- elimination round to determine the top 25 images in each of the 7 categories. There are 4 wedding categories and 3 portrait categories in the competition, and all images judged online will receive feedback from the judges. The top 175 finalist images will be printed and mounted expertly by Epson. These prints will be hung on display in the “Epson Creative Asia Gallery” during the Creative Asia Conference.

WHAT MAKES THE CANON CREATIVE ASIA AWARDS DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER COMPETITION? The whole judging event will be broadcast live online with video and audio of the judging panel, judges scores, image previews and interactive audience chat. Entrants can experience from their own location, the insight and education that comes from watching a live judging event.

PRIZES & AWARDS Each of the 7 category winners of the 2010-2011 Canon Creative Asia Awards will receive a Canon EOS 7D. The 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners per category will receive a Canon Creative Asia Awards trophy. Gold, silver and bronze awards will also be awarded based on overall final scores. The Wedding & Portrait Photographers of the Year will receive a Canon EOS 5D MK II! The Creative Asia Photography Awards is proudly supported by Canon, Nikon, Epson, Lastolite, WPPI, Asukabook, Digital SLR Photography, Triple Scoop Music, AIPP, Clubsnap and Fotograf.net.

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Exhibitions

NOVEMBER 2010

Exhibitions

23 October 2010 – 08 March 2011

TE PAPA - WELLINGTON - Free entry - 10am – 6pm every day, and until 9pm on Thursday Brian Brake is arguably New Zealand’s most internationally recognised photographer of the mid-20th century. He first made his name as an international photojournalist, photographing for picture magazines such as Life, National Geographic and Paris Match.

His most famous work was on the monsoon rains in India in 1960. This essay yielded the widely reproduced Monsoon girl, an image of a young woman feeling with pleasure the first rains on her face.

Brake was also well known in New Zealand for his 1963 best-selling book, New Zealand, gift of the sea and, in the 1980s, for his images associated with the Te Maori exhibition.

Te Papa - Museum of New Zealand, Wellington is exhibiting a collection of Brian Brake’s work from 23 October 2010 8 May 2011. Click here for more information.

Sheep: Icons in New Zealand Art 18 September - 23 January 2011

Recognising and celebrating the contribution that SHEEP have made to this nation’s development, these icons are seen as an integral part of New Zealand’s cultural heritage. At a time when the dairy industry is flourishing, earning record prices and taking over pastoral farms, SHEEP: NZ Icons in Art celebrates the contribution that SHEEP have made to this nation’s development.

PATAKA cnr Norrie and Parumoana St Porirua City ph: +64 4 237 1511 Opening Hours: Mon - Sat 10am - 4:30pm Sunday 11am - 4:30pm

Sheep - Holme Station Image © Stephen Goodenough - FNZIPP

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Ilford Diary

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Ilford Diary November 2010

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Waikato/BOP Regional Meeting

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Canty/Westland Regional One Day Seminar with Russell Hamlet

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Wellington Regional Meeting l

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Canty/Westland Regional Christmas Party

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August 2011

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Don’t forget, if you are travelling around New Zealand, as an NZIPP member you can go to any NZIPP Regional Meeting. If you are in the area, take the opportunity to participate in a regional meeting outside your own region.

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PRO REPORT Member Magazine of the NZIPP

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NOVEMBER 2010

Corporate Members

Industry News

Corporate Members

6 Real-Life Stories Where Photographers Were Expected To Work For Free

A special thank you to our Corporate Members for their continuing support:

From Photoshelter: Photography appears to be an industry like no other. It is a magical profession that defies all rules of business and logic. A job where bills do not apply, and money is useless. Or, at least that’s how it seems to a large segment of the population, who expect photographers to work for free.

I simply cannot believe how many people have the balls to expect a hard-working businessperson to simply give away their goods/services for free. What other industry gets this kind of treatment?

I used Twitter and Facebook to ask photographers for their own real-life stories of being asked to work for free, and I was quickly overwhelmed with more responses than I could fit into this article......

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